Elections on Testudo coming soon for VPCD and Assembly runoff elections. Stay tuned. VPCD candidate statements here.

Exec and Assembly Election Results are in!

Grad student discounts in the Union

Current stuff:

• Grad student org leaders: Check out GSL's resource list.
• Check out our Resources for Grad Students.
• Check out the Graduate Handbook's checklist for new grad students.

Curious about the Operating Agreement between SMC and the University for Graduate Gardens and Graduate Hills? (.pdf file)

News:

• May 7: Diamondback staff editorial on Strategic Plan's emphasis on graduate education: A life less bitter
• May 6: Diamondback: Strategic plan to raise stipends
• May 4: GSG Chief of Staff Devin Ellis receives Graduate Student Distinguished Service Award.
• April 22: Diamondback covers Grad Pub: Your TA, After Hours
• April 16: Diamondback: Strategic plan carries $2B cost
• April 15: Baltimore Examiner reports that the average UMCP faculty salary is $127,500, 10th in the nation: UM-Baltimore, College Park professors among the best-paid faculty nationwide
• April 11: Resident Life and Southern Management Corporation announce new rents for Grad Gardens and Grad Hills. Historical rents here.
• April 10: Diamondback: MTA unveils Purple Line costs
• April 10: Diamondback letter to the editor by GSG Executive Board: Vote in the GSG elections
• April 7: insidehighered.com: Winning Hearts and Minds in War on Plagiarism
• April 3: Gazette: Science clashes with access as officials debate proposed Purple Line route
• April 2: Diamondback column by Danny Rogers: A terrible life choice?
• April 1: Diamondback: Graduate Student Government hails univ. for spending on housing
• April 1 Diamondback staff editorial in support of the Campus Drive alignment of the Purple Line: The People's Line
• April 1: insidehighered.com: Ph.D. Completion — and Content
• March 13: Diamondback: SGA supports Campus Drive route for Purple Line
• March 12: Diamondback column on Strategic Plan by Danny Rogers: Just what the doctoral candidate ordered
• March 4: Baltimore Examiner: Graduate students unionizing efforts take hit
• March 4: Retriever Weekly (UMBC student paper): Graduate students fight for the right to unionize
• March 3: Diamondback: Grad student union efforts take a hit
• February 28 : Diamondback column on East Campus grad housing by Danny Rogers: You call THAT a subsidy?
• February 27: Diamondback: RHA votes for Campus Drive Purple Line alignment
• February 20: WTOP News: Maryland Grad Students Seeking to Unionize
• February 20: Baltimore Sun: Bill would widen right to organize
• February 20: Baltimore Examiner: Graduate students ask lawmakers for right to unionize
• February 19: WYPR radio broadcast: Collective Bargaining for UMD Graduate Students?
• February 15: AFL-CIO blog: University of Maryland Graduate Student Employees Fighting for a Union
• February 15: Diamondback: Doctoral students targeted for East Campus housing
• February 15: Diamondback staff editorial on grad students and East Campus: Left out in the cold
• February 14: University of Maryland B-School Launches $12M PhD Program Initiative
• February 14: Diamondback column by Danny Rogers: Graduate Gratitude
• February 12: Baltimore Examiner: Grad students fight for right to form a union
• February 12: Diamondback: Grad students lobbying hard for union bill
• February 11: Diamondback: GSG slams East Campus housing plan
• February 3: Washington Post: Grad Students May Get to Unionize
• February 3: Rethinkcollegepark.net named a top 10 planning site for 2008
• February 1: Nature: Letter on collective bargaining for grad employees at UMD
• January 22: Washington Post: U-Md. Wants Purple Line Off Its Main Street
• January 17: Gazette.net article: Third time not the charm for Purple Line
• January 10: GSG President Laura Moore speaks at Maryland Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committe briefing on textbook prices. Testimony here.

The Graduate Student Government is the only campus organization sponsored, staffed and run exclusively by graduate students. If you are a graduate student, you are automatically a member of the GSG, and your Student Activity Fee goes directly to the funding of this organization. We are completely independent of the university administration, and we report only to the graduate student body. We advocate for graduate students on and off campus, bringing our concerns to University officials, USM officials, the Board of Regents, and lawmakers. Click here for more information on the GSG.

• Assembly Meeting Schedule

• Agenda for May 16 Assembly Meeting

• Housing Resources for grad students

• What are the six things every graduate student should know?

• Who's my rep?

• Recreational opportunities for graduate students

• Information for housing developers

• Dissertation Support Groups now forming

• Read the PhD Completion Report, the result of the University's investigation into our low PhD completion rate.

• GSG President's Senate presentation: Graduate Student Issues

• Grad Gardens/Hills Residents: Sign up for the Yahoo! group here.